25th September 2012, 10:07 PM
Sega CD
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*Devastator - Finally beat this very difficult, Japan-only SCD game... it's part side-scrolling action-platform game, part shmup. The game has seven levels. None are overly long, so this game isn't very long, and the first six are of only average challenge, too (four are platforming, two shmup). The last level, though... that's a completely different story. The last level is a boss rush shmup level. There are three bosses, the first with one form (a re-fight of an old boss), the second with two forms (another refight), and the last a new, three-form boss. There are no checkpoints in the stage, so if you die you start the whole thing over. Yeah, it's quite tough. I had to leave my SCD on for a good week before I finally spent several hours today with the game, memorized the level, and finally managed to get through the whole thing. You do get two points of health refill between bosses (you have 5 hit points), but none between forms, and I needed max health for the first boss, so fighting through the first two got very tedious since I'd have to give up and try again if I wasn't going to get to the last boss's first form with full health. There are a lot of bosses and patterns to memorize in this fight, for sure; I used several continues, and I had it set to 9 lives per continue. It's kind of odd that the final level is so hard, considering that the rest of the game isn't, but I guess they wanted something hard in the game to make up for the otherwise short length. Well, it worked. Overall, the final level is a real pain, but I like Devastator. Oh, the game has anime cutscenes from the anime movie of the same name in between levels. I really don't know what was going on in the story, but apparently my giant robot saved the city in the end of the game. It's too bad this one didn't come over to the US... it's one of only a very few SCD action games that were Japan-exclusives. There was pretty much only Devastator, Ninja Warriors, Night Striker, Cyborg 007, and not much else... if we could even get Keio Flying Squadron, why not this? It's not the best game around, but it is decently fun at least. Oh well.
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*Devastator - Finally beat this very difficult, Japan-only SCD game... it's part side-scrolling action-platform game, part shmup. The game has seven levels. None are overly long, so this game isn't very long, and the first six are of only average challenge, too (four are platforming, two shmup). The last level, though... that's a completely different story. The last level is a boss rush shmup level. There are three bosses, the first with one form (a re-fight of an old boss), the second with two forms (another refight), and the last a new, three-form boss. There are no checkpoints in the stage, so if you die you start the whole thing over. Yeah, it's quite tough. I had to leave my SCD on for a good week before I finally spent several hours today with the game, memorized the level, and finally managed to get through the whole thing. You do get two points of health refill between bosses (you have 5 hit points), but none between forms, and I needed max health for the first boss, so fighting through the first two got very tedious since I'd have to give up and try again if I wasn't going to get to the last boss's first form with full health. There are a lot of bosses and patterns to memorize in this fight, for sure; I used several continues, and I had it set to 9 lives per continue. It's kind of odd that the final level is so hard, considering that the rest of the game isn't, but I guess they wanted something hard in the game to make up for the otherwise short length. Well, it worked. Overall, the final level is a real pain, but I like Devastator. Oh, the game has anime cutscenes from the anime movie of the same name in between levels. I really don't know what was going on in the story, but apparently my giant robot saved the city in the end of the game. It's too bad this one didn't come over to the US... it's one of only a very few SCD action games that were Japan-exclusives. There was pretty much only Devastator, Ninja Warriors, Night Striker, Cyborg 007, and not much else... if we could even get Keio Flying Squadron, why not this? It's not the best game around, but it is decently fun at least. Oh well.